Vyooham (1990 film)

Vyooham
File:Vyoohamfilm.jpg Poster designed by Gayathri Ashokan
Directed by	Sangeeth Sivan
Written by	Sangeeth Sivan Sab John aka John E.
Starring	Raghuvaran Sukumaran Parvathi
Cinematography	Santosh Sivan
Edited by	A. Sreekar Prasad
Music by	S. P. Venkatesh
Release date	1990
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Vyooham is a 1990 Malayalam-language Indian feature film, directed by Sangeeth Sivan, starring Raghuvaran, Sukumaran, Captain Raju, Babu Antony, Urvashi, Rajan P. Dev and Parvathy Jayaram. It was the debut directorial of Sangeeth Sivan.

The lead characters were loosely inspired the characters of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon, where Raghuvaran and Sukumaran played the lead roles respectively, while the plot is original.

Plot

An undercover agent, Tony Leous was hired by Kochi police to find some drug dealers. The same agent has a personal score to settle as well, with the same drug dealers who killed his wife, Tessy. Sukumaran is also a policeman as part of Narcotic control. Raghuvaran raids one of Captain Raju's facilities and recovers smuggled items. This gives a heavy blow to the smugglers. At night, Babu Antony enters Tony house and kills the pet dog. The gundas also enter Sukumaran's house and tie Sukumaran and his family, wearing a mask and telling them to be careful. Raghuvaran wants to get evidence to catch the smugglers. Urvashi, sister of Sukumaran, falls in love with Tony, who seems serious always. Finally, Rajan P. Dev, who lost his son now gets a threatening call from the smugglers to help them smuggle or else his second son also may get converted to a drug addict. Rajan P. Dev tells the whole story of his killed son as a smuggler and drug addict due to the villains. A meeting place was fixed between the villain and Rajan P. Dev. At the meeting area, Raghuvaran records the talks. But the villain finds out Raghuvaran, attacks him and also kills Rajan P. Dev. In the end, at the smuggling area, Raghuvaran finishes all the villains. The film ends with Raghuvaran going in a jeep, smiling with Urvashi.

Cast

• Raghuvaran... Tony Leous
• Sukumaran... Mohan
• Captain Raju... Khalid
• Babu Antony
• Urvashi... Lakshmi
• Mohan Raj
• Rajan P. Dev... Jayakumar
• Kanakalatha... Geetha
• Parvathy Jayaram... Tessy
• Devan... Raveendranath
• T. P. Madhavan... Settu
• Shivaji
• Master Badusha... Vineeth
• Mahesh... Kishore
• Willy... Sub Inspector

Reception

The film was appreciated for its technical brilliance and fast action and won the box office battle as well.

Trivia

• Vyooham was dubbed into Tamil language as Kaaval Athikari.
• Vyooham was Raghuvaran's return to Malayalam after Rugma released in 1983.

External links

• Vyooham at IMDb